News from the Province
On Saturday, December 14 at 6:00am, Canon Pierre Dumain, Vicar at St. Francis de Sales Oratory, celebrated a "Rorate Mass", which is the name for a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent. It is a tradition for this Mass to be celebrated before sunrise, accompanied only by candle light.
On Friday, November 22, Canon Raphael Ueda, Rector of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory in San José, celebrated a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of St. Cecilia and led a prayer for the canonization of Servant of God Father Magin Catalá, O.F.M., at Mission Santa Clara on the Santa Clara University campus. Canon Jean-Marie Moreau, returning for a visit, served as Deacon, and gave the homily. Original "California Mission Mass" music written down by the missionaries for the converted native Americans to sing was also sung by the choir during the Mass.
From Tokyo to Nagasaki, Osaka to Kyoto, travel to holy places sanctified by holy missionaries, like St. Francis Xavier and St. Maximillian Kolbe.
If you are one of the first twenty people to sign-up for this pilgrimage, $200.00 of your tour payment will be given to the rebuilding of the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago in your name.
